Now Reading: How to Speak Machine by John Maeda. I was drawn to the book by the appeal of combining computation with design. With computers ever becoming more powerful, it is important not only to… Read More »Now Reading: How to Speak Machine
Now Reading: Tears of the Anaren by C. W. Longbottom or so it says… Following the adventures of the Mythic Quest gang, it seemed only natural to take a look. Note that it should be… Read More »Now Reading: Tears of the Anaren
Having watched the great Severance AppleTV show once and loving the retro chic look-and-feel and the surreal storylines as well as the fantastic credits I decided to read Severance The Lexington Letter. So far so… Read More »Now Reading: Severance – The Lexington Letter
I must admit that I have never read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I am correcting that omission now and this has been prompted by a few paragraphs in the excellent essay by Irene Vajello… Read More »Now Reading: Fahrenheit 451
Very appropriately for a book relating the audacious story/history of the invention of books, I am reading this fantastic volume in physical book format. I got this as a gift and I can’t wait to… Read More »Now Reading: El Infinito en un Junco
Now Reading: The Fabric of Civilization by Virgina Postrel From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, this book covers a global history of textiles and the world they made driving technology, business, politics, and culture. The… Read More »Now Reading: The Fabric of Civilization
Now reading: Rabid, A cultural history of the World’s most diabolical virus , by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
Now Reading: Sentient by Jackie Higgins After reading a review of this book in the Guardian, I thought it was a good book to add to my list. Jackie Higgins explains how the animal kingdom… Read More »Now Reading: Sentient
It is one (or actually several) of those books you have always heard something about, but actually never read it… Now Reading: Dune by Frank Herbert. I think it is high time I change that.… Read More »Now Reading: Dune
